= Foundation Board Minutes for Tue, October 17th 2017, 17:00 UTC =
Next meeting date Tue, October 24th 2017, 17:00 UTC
== Attending ==
* Alexandre Franke
* Allan Day
* Rosanna Yuen
* Meg Ford
* Carlos Soriano
== Regrets ==
* Cosimo Cecchi
* Zeeshan Ali
* Neil McGovern
== Missing ==
* Nuritzi Sanchez
== Agenda for 2017-10-17 ==
* Conference spending policy updates
* Travel support for UX hackfest
* Name for internships for privacy funds
* Review ongoing actions
== Minutes ==
* Conference spending policy updates
* The current policy would allow organizers to spend money they haven’t raised yet, which could lead to a loss
* Carlos suggested to approve two complementary budgets
* a part that can only be spent if raised
* a part that can be spent even if not raised, to make sure the conference happens
* Organizers are expected to make a profit, but a small loss would not be a problem
* The main goal should be to make a good conference
* How does the organizers forecast the amount they’ll raise?
* How does the newly appointed sponsorship committee tie in with that?
* Coordination between the two is expected
* VOTE: approve new policy with 2 budgets for conferences (minimal + extras depending on money raised)
+1 Carlos, -1 Allan, Meg. Abstained: Alexandre. VOTE DOESN’T PASS
* VOTE: conference organizers should be required to have a new budget approved by the board if they raised less than 70% of their budgeted income
+1 Allan, Meg, Abstained: Carlos, Alexandre. VOTE PASSED
* 70% by what time? The problem is that conferences often don't know what their income is going to be until very late - sponsors are often confirmed at the last minute.
* VOTE: invalidate the previously passed vote (let's give this more time to see if we can find a good solution)
+1 Alexandre, Allan, Carlos, Abstained: Meg. VOTE PASSED
* Travel support for UX hackfest
* Allan has emailed the board asking for help - didn’t get a response to his last email and timing is becoming an issue
* All of the Travel Committee is at GNOME.Asia
* Main requirement at the moment is to book accommodation
* ACTION: Carlos to send an email to board list to have the full board make a decision; will ask the board to approve budget for the cost of the accommodation; hackfest attendees to apply to the travel committee for travel costs in the usual manner
* Name for internships for privacy funds
* If there is no contract it is not technically an internship
* Discussion needs to continue on list
== _Ongoing_ ==
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* Payment authorization policy
* VOTE: approve the new Payment authorization policy as specified on the private budget wiki page
* +1 Allan, Nuritzi, Carlos, Cosimo, Meg, Alexandre, Zeeshan - VOTE PASSES
* ACTION: Allan to make the page public (with ACL to prevent modifications from anyone else than the board)
* 2017-10-08 - page has been made public but Allan isn't certain what to do about the ACL
* ACTION: Nuritzi to ensure that this is announced to the Foundation
* Employee travel policy updates
* VOTE: incorporate changes into the Staff Travel Policy
* +1 Unanimous. VOTE PASSES
* ACTION: Allan to put this on a public wiki page
* ACTION: Neil to make the changes
* Conference spending policy
* +1 Unanimous. VOTE PASSES
* ACTION: Allan to review budget page and move relevant sections to the public area
* ACTION: Allan to create conference requirements page, should include a requirement that they follow the brand guidelines
* Budget for FY2018
* VOTE: approve the budget as presented by Neil
* +1 Unanimous. VOTE PASSES
* ACTION: Neil to communicate with Shaun
* ACTION: Neil to put the budget spreadsheet into
cloud.gnome.org and link to it from appropriate places, including a written version of the reserves policy
* Intention to create marketing committee
* To dispense money for small events and marketing line items
* In the meantime, we would have an individual budget holder
* VOTE: appoint Nuritzi as the temporary budget holder
* +1 Nem con. VOTE PASSES
* There are concerns about the correct course of action.
* ACTION: Nuritzi to come up with a charter for the proposed committee
* Zazzle store
* We have a link on the page where we list vendors
* Andreas confirmed that Stormy is the one with access
* ACTION: Allan to try to reach out to Stormy
* 2017-10-08 - Allan got in touch with Stormy and got some login information, but he still can't access the account. More followup is required.
* ACTION: Nuritzi to assess the quality and check whether we want to continue using them
* Using TransferWise or some other payment system
* This has been recommended to us as a good alternative to Paypal that is cheaper and works in certain countries where Paypal does not work
* 2017-09-19
* Since Rosanna and Neil would be the main users of this, a good next step would be for them to review options and report to the Board
* ACTION: Neil will look into this and coordinate with Rosanna when she's back
* 2017-10-08
* This is now set up
* Need to put this into travel sponsorship form
* ACTION: Alexandre to talk to the travel committee to add this to the options
* ACTION: Nuritzi to add this option to the small events reimbursement page
* ACTION: Rosanna to test if it works well
* ACTION: Nuritzi to announce it to foundation-list
* Looking for sponsorship for GitLab runners
* To increase our Continuous Integration capacity on the GNOME GitLab server, we'll need to provision some more servers, as we migrate more projects there
* We could ask for help to our Advisory Board, or use our network to ask for support from other companies
* It would make more sense to ask for hardware/cycles directly, rather than fundraising, since server bandwidth is a recurring cost
* 2017-10-08
* Neil is waiting for verification before this can proceed further
* Calls with committees
* Twice a year with each committee, once after the board elections (end June/early July and then late November-early January).
* The call is a touch point - a way of checking in. Needs to stimulate ongoing conversations and ad hoc problem solving. Committees will be invited to calls with the whole Board to problem solve around specific things.
* One board member and the ED meet with each committee (or a board member and the director of operations if there's no ED).
* Where possible the same board member should be consistent.
* Board representatives then feed back to the rest of the board.
* 2017-10-08
* First meetings in the sequence to happen in November. Should focus on collaboratively setting goals and identifying issues.
* Once the
* ACTION: Cosimo to meet with the sponsorship committee
* Foundation support for Flathub
* 2017-05-09
* The Board voted to try and use some of our pro-bono counsel time towards the Flathub legal framework, provided our lawyers agree
* ACTION: Neil to connect to Luis
* 2017-05-16 - Exact questions to ask Luis are being worked up
* 2017-06-06 - Questions sent to Luis, being looked at.
* 2017-09-05 - Being passed to Karen now, discussions have stalled a little, Neil chasing up
* 2017-10-08
* Neil and Rob are going to meet Karen at Freenode Live and try to talk about this
* Hackfest process documentation
* 2017-02-14
* ACTION: Nuritzi to take a stab at updating the documentation for the process to request a hackfest and responsibilities between Board and TC
* 2017-05-02
* Nuritzi will work on this by end of May, check in then
* 2017-09-05: Nuritzi updated the wiki about a week ago but we should go over this in Berlin.
* 2017-10-08
* Part of this was done at the hackfest, we'll need to update the wiki page
* Another part is pending reply from Pam about how an event can use the GNOME wordmark
* ACTION: Nuritzi to update the wiki page, including Alexandre's proposed statement about openness of hackfests
* Owncloud shared calendar for the board
* 2016-08-10
* Cosimo tested creating an event, but with mixed results
* ACTION: Cosimo to take it on from here
* 2017-03-07
* Neil is looking into a similar calendar so will take over
* 2017-07-26
* (Neil) can someone else have this? Alexandre volunteers. #challengeaccepted
* 2017-08-19
* Alexandre tested the shared calendar that Allan set up a while back on nextcloud, seems to work well
* We are entering beta phase with some directors opting in
=== Ongoing but stalled ===
'''This section includes items which haven't seen an update in the last 30 days.'''
* Dropping dates in copyright claims on our websites
* 2016-12-06
* ACTION: Alexandre to send an email to foundation-list with a proposal for discussion
* 2016-12-20
* Next step seems to be to reach out to Creative Commons to get advice on what exactly can and should be done
* 2017-01-24
* Alexandre reached out to Creative commons
* 2017-02-28
* Alexandre will try alternative channels
* 2017-05-02
* We got a reply, Alexandre to follow up
* 2017-05-30
* Two options
* Have terms of use on the website that state that linking to a page is sufficient attribution
* Require contributors to assign their attribution to the GNOME Foundation
* Privacy campaign funds
* 2016-09-27
* Draft is out for the Board to review and give feedback
* ACTION: Cosimo to try and form a committee to review internship proposals
* 2016-10-26
* We are aiming for an internship round in spring 2017
* 2017-07-26
* Carlos and Zeeshan are taking this over -- the plan is still to do internships
* Friends of GNOME
* 2016-08-10
* ACTION: Allan to get in touch with Tobi and the sysadmin team to migrate the FoG infrastructure over to GNOME
* 2017-03-07
* Allan will pass this on to Neil, and connect him to Tobi
* 2017-04-18 - Neil has CRM working (ish) on the gnome website, we're looking at how to move the PayPal IPN to CiviCRM
* At sysadmin meeting at GUADEC
* Paypal Giving Fund
* Alexandre suggested in december 2015 to get us enrolled in the program
* That would give us exposure. For example Humble bundle allows to direct the charity part of purchases towards any of their participants
* Zana tried to get us in sometime before may 2016, we never heard back.
* 2016-09-06
* ACTION: Zana to look into it
=== Ongoing but no director assigned ===
'''This section includes items which haven't seen an update in the last 30 days and have no Director assigned'''
== Nice to have ==
'''This section includes items which we would love to see happen at some point but lack the time to effectively become reality'''
* Contract template for future use organizations for which we handle money
* Kat to draft this
* Alexandre took over
* 2017-07-26
* This is close to being done
* Privacy policy for GNOME services
* Sysadmin Team's NDA should also be covered when dealing with this item
* Kat or Allan to write up the policy
* Kat or Allan to write up recommended wording for distribution privacy policies, regarding the behaviour of GNOME software
* 2017-07-26
* Allan is still working on this, but with low priority
== Discussed on the mailing list ==
== Completed actions ==
* Freenode Live trip
* Neil is set to keynote the event
* VOTE: approve travel for Neil
* +1 Unanimous. VOTE PASSES
* CoC Workshop sponsorship
* A group of people (Sarah Sharp, others) in SF are putting together a workshop about enforcement of CoC in communities or events
* The CoC working group would like to attend to e.g. help them with the enforcing guidelines
* The organizers of the workshop asked us to consider donating resources to this event, including sponsoring Sarah's travel for the event
* Total request: up to $3600 for training materials, flight and accommodation for Sarah, but whatever we can afford
* The request comes from Rosanna and Nuritzi; Rosanna has been contacted privately by the organizers
* 2017-09-19
* Would like to see a cost breakdown
* General feeling we should not cover all the cost ourselves, and we should make sure it's geared towards our needs too
* ACTION: Nuritzi to get on a call with Josh and report back to the Board
* 2017-09-26
* Timing not ideal
* Would help establishing a relationship with a local community
* Cost is high
* We’d prefer more planning
* ACTION: Nuritzi to work on planning something in the same vein
* 2017-10-03
* far from ideal situation
* everyone rather hesitant
* still an opportunity
* also a nudge towards a local community
* VOTE: offer to fund up to $1800
* +1 Nuritzi, Cosimo, Zeeshan, -1 Alexandre, Abstained Allan. PASSED
* ACTION: Nuritzi to get back to them
* DONE (via text to Josh so he can talk to Sarah)
* ACTION: Nuritzi to send an email to foundation-list to gauge interest
* DONE
* Mexico workshop
* 2017-08-29
* Was supposed to start yesterday, has been delayed.
* 2017-10-08
* We will stop tracking this, and put it back here if it comes back
* Engagement team committee for funds
* The committee would allocate small budgets for events like release parties
* Board to vote on this once we have a list of volunteers and a description of the committee's role
* 2017-10-08
* This was discussed at our hackfest and has been replaced by other action items
* GNOME.Asia logo / "A simple explanation of GNOME.Asia 2017's logo to FoundationBoard" email
* The design is not optimal, could use some tweaking but it’s alright.
* ACTION: Allan to write recommendations for next year
* 2017-07-11 - Allan still not done this. Sad face.
* 2017-10-08
* This should be covered by the brand guidelines; we're going to track this together with the conference policy page
* GUADEC 2017 finance request
* The board wishes to make this a more straightforward process in the future
* ACTION: Neil to make sure that expenses allocation for future conferences is discussed by the board in person at GUADEC
* 2017-10-08
* This was discussed at our hackefst. DONE
